Marco Rubio 2016: “People around the world are watching this debate and this campaign and wondering what’s happening here, because the things [Trump] says are nonsensical.”
Marco Rubio 2020:
Marco Rubio 2020:
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1323123244195524614
Rubio went on to warn in 2016 of Republicans supporting Trump: “These are people that – whether it’s now or five years from now or two years from now or six months from now – are going to be explaining for a long time how they fell into this.”
Rubio also said of Trump in 2016: "This is not about political correctness. This is about rules of civility and the way a society talks to each other."
“It's getting harder every day to justify that statement to myself, to my children, to my family& to the people that support me," Rubio said of backing Trump. "This country deserves better. At some point, people have to wake up here. This is really going to do damage to America."
And if the argument is Rubio, like Ted Cruz, was saying how disgusted he was with Trump in the context of a primary fight, consider that none of the 2020 losing Dems said anything close to this existential about Biden. Closest was Harris, but even her busing hit was much softer
Many Republican leaders who portray themselves as following morals and principles above politics said four years ago that Trump would be wrong for the party and the country—and are now arguing Trump should be re-elected, w/o explaining how their morals and principles flipped.
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